Ideals Quotes - Page 16

• I am an absurd idealist. But I believe that all that must come true. For, unless it comes true, the world will be laid desolate. And I believe that it can come true.

  Leslie Charteris

  Laughter, Believe, Fighting

  "The Last Hero".

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• Do not direct all your energies towards seeking pleasure but rather towards a sublime ideal. Your energies will then serve you and contribute to the realisation of your goal or ideal.

  Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov

  Goal, Sublime, Energy

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• The Latin American has no tribe to fall back on, as the African does, no reliable judiciary to defend his rights as the European does, no social ideal or sacred constitution as the North American does, no pervasive mythology to soften life as it does in Asia, and no even an ideology to subscribe to, as does the Russian or Chinese. Without wealth, what is there left to him but his manhood, to be flaunted and defended at every occasion?

  Ted Simon

  Latin, Fall, Rights

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• Originally this was the most important thing about martial arts - to reach a higher level, to become a strong human being. Strong doesn't mean big arms. It means who can be a more strict human being with himself. That is the ideal of martial arts.

  Tsutomu Ohshima

  Art, Strong, Mean

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• I come from a tradition of Western culture, in which the ideal (my ideal) was the complex, dense, and 'cathedral-like' structure of the highly educated and articulate personality--a man or woman who carried inside themselves a personally constructed and unique version of the entire heritage of the West. [But now] I see within us all (myself included) there placement of complex inner density with a new kind of self--evolving under the pressure of information overload and the technology of the 'instantly available.'

  Richard Foreman

  Unique, Technology, Men

  "The Pancake People, Or, 'The Gods Are Pounding My Head'". A Statement, www.edge.org. March 8, 2005.

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• Each flitch, each board, each plank can have only one ideal use. The woodworker, applying a thousand skills, must find that ideal use and then shape the wood to realize its true potential.

  George Nakashima

  Skills, Boards, Use

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• We cannot and must not allow ourselves to have the message of Hiroshima and Nagasaki fade completely from our minds, and we cannot allow our vision or ideals to fade, either. For if we do, we have but one course left for us. And that flash of light will not only rob us of our vision, but it will rob us of our lives, our progeny, and our very existence.

  Tadatoshi Akiba

  Hiroshima And Nagasaki, Light, Vision

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• Busted is not the ideal band I'd like to be in by any stretch of the imagination.

  Charlie Simpson

  Imagination, Band, Busted

  "Busted bust up". www.theguardian.com. January 14, 2005.

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• Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor the best opportunities; they will never come.

  Janet Erskine Stuart

  Time, Teaching, Learning

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• Mathematics, even in its present and most abstract state, is not detached from life. It is just the ideal handling of the problems of life.

  Cassius Jackson Keyser

  Education, Science, World

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• Each man must learn his own ideal and try to accomplish it: that is a surer way of progress than to take the ideas of another.

  Romain Rolland

  Men, Ideas, Progress

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• Don't try to anticipate an ideal reader - or any reader. He/she might exist - but is reading someone else.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Reading, Writing, Trying

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• It is my plan to create a city that is direct and simple... To leave out all that is ugly, to eliminate the unnecessary, and to give Florida and the nation a resort city as perfect as study and ideals can make it.

  Addison Mizner

  Simple, Cities, Florida

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• The charge that the construction of the geologic scale involves circularity has a certain amount of validity. ...Thus, the procedure is far from ideal and the geologic ranges are constantly being revised (usually extended) as new occurrences are found.

  David M. Raup

  Circularity, Construction, Range

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• But the egoist has no ideals, for the knowledge that his ideals are only his ideals, frees him from their domination. He acts for his own interest, not for the interest of ideals.

  John Buchanan Robinson

  Domination, Interest

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• The egoist is fooled by no ideals: he discards them or uses them, as may suit his own interest.

  John Buchanan Robinson

  Suits, Use, May

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• I think women sign on for some ideal when they get married, and when they realise they haven't got anything close to what they want, they bury their disappointment.

  Bella Pollen

  Disappointment, Thinking, Want

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• When I think back now to the recording sessions, there is more improvisation than one hears. It's an ideal combination of arrangements and improvisation. Only a few people are able to listen and say what is composed and what is improvised. It's a unit.

  Eberhard Weber

  Thinking, People, Able

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• Believe in your dreams and ideals and pursue them with determination and motivation. Always find the time to do something for other people. Indeed, there is nothing more rewarding than making someone else happy.

  Fabiola Gianotti

  Dream, Determination, Motivation

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• Humanity will continue, but in a different way. Material structures will change. From this we will have the opportunity to be more human. We are living in the most important era of the Mayan calendars and prophecies. All the prophecies of the world, all the traditions are converging now. There is no time for games. The spiritual ideal of this era is action.

  Carlos Barrios

  Spiritual, Opportunity, Games

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• The horrors of the Second World War, the chilling winds of the Cold War and the crushing weight of the Iron Curtain are little more than fading memories. Ideals that once commanded great loyalty are now taken for granted.

  Jan Peter Balkenende

  Crush, Loyalty, Memories

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• Conditions are seldom ideal, and if one waits long enough for ideal conditions one is just making excuses.

  Bernd Heinrich

  Long, Waiting, Excuse

  Bernd Heinrich (1994). “A Year in the Maine Woods”, Addison-Wesley Longman

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• For love that is not requited in equal measure is not love at all; it is not sacred. And holding on to the ideal of such love can keep us from finding the one that is true.

  Kathleen McGowan

  Finding The One, Sacred, Holding On

  Kathleen McGowan (2012). “The Book of Love”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• Why do we so mindlessly abuse our planet, our only home? The answer to that lies in each of us. Therefore, we will strive to bring about understanding that we are--each one of us--responsible for more than just ourselves, our family, our football team, our country, or our own kind; that there is more to life than just these things. That each one of us must also bring the natural world back into its proper place in our lives, and realize that doing so is not some lofty ideal but a vital part of our personal survival.

  Lawrence Anthony

  Football, Country, Team

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• Maximum growth and high ideals are not incompatible. They’re inseparable.

  Jim Stengel

  Growth, Inseparable, Maximum

  Jim Stengel (2012). “Grow: How Ideals Power Growth and Profit at the World’s 50 Greatest Companies”, p.1, Random House

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